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Behold, the rhino beetle's evolutionary beauty

BySarah Wells
Historic Horns

Humans off the hook for woolly rhino extinction — study

Things were looking bleak even before early humans began hunting.

ByNina Pullano
Innovation

Why this absurd helicopter study could help save a critically endangered creature

While hanging rhinos produce spectacularly absurd photographs, behind the award and the study lies a serious business.

ByJason Gilchrist
Science

Bioinspired fake rhino horns poised to disrupt black market

Scientists vs. poachers. The prize? Keeping rhinos from extinction.

BySarah Wells
Science

SpaceX Just Launched 3 Rhino-Sized Satellites on a Falcon 9 for Canada

One small step for quadrupeds...

ByMike Brown
Science

5 Black Rhinos to Embark on Historic Transport From Europe to Africa

Finally, some good news for the critically endangered rhinos.

ByYasmin Tayag
Science

Victoria the Rhino Carries the Future of a Near-Extinct Species in Her Womb

She's a southern white rhino with a lot of potential.

BySarah Sloat
Science

Slaughtered Rhino Suggests Ancient Humans Traveled in the Pleistocene Age

We were off by 600,000 years. 

ByMary von Aue
Science

After Death of Last Male Northern White Rhino, One Survival Method Remains

'I think it's reasonable to try it."

ByYasmin Tayag
Science

Scientists Use Rhino DNA to Fight Transnational Crime

There are only 30,000 rhinoceros left in the wild. Will this save them?

ByEileen Guo
Culture

3D-Printed Rhino Horns, Like Synthetic Diamonds, Will Expand the Black Market

Rhino horns are a luxury good and a public "Fuck You!" to the law. Flooding the market isn't going to change that.

ByYasmin Tayag
Science

'Test Tube' Northern White Rhinos Could Be the Answer to Saving the Species From Extinction

With only three Northern White Rhinos left on the planet, in vitro is their only hope.

BySarah Sloat
Science

South Africa Sees Rise In Rhino Poaching Arrests But Also Rhino Deaths 

Environmental minister: Not good, but could be worse.

ByBen Guarino
Mind and Body

R.I.P. Nabiré, Czech Republic's Northern White Rhino

Only four of her kind remain in the world.

ByMatthew Strauss
Science

Sequencing the Black Rhino Genome Could Save the Species From Extinction

Conservation biotechnology goes crowdfunding. 

ByBen Guarino
Health

We Need a Better Way to Keep Rhinos in Captivity, Stat

They're getting sick from inactivity in zoos and hunted to extinction in the wild.

ByPeter Rugg